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. 2015 Mar;105(3):510-2.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302326. Epub 2015 Jan 20.

Combining clinical and population-level data to understand the health of neighborhoods

Earle C Chambers  1 , Barbara C Wong, Rachael W Riley, Nicole Hollingsworth, Arthur E Blank, Christa Myers, Jane Bedell, Peter A Selwyn
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Combining clinical and population-level data to understand the health of neighborhoods

Earle C Chambers et al. Am J Public Health. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

From February through December 2012, we examined responses to health behavior questions integrated into the electronic medical record of primary care centers in the Bronx, New York in the context of New York City Community Health Survey data. We saw a higher proportion of unhealthy behaviors among patients than among the neighborhood population. Analyzing clinical data in the neighborhood context can better target at-risk populations.

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